RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

210 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
fifteenth and last volume of the Encyclopaedia
oftke Social Sciences, toward which the Foundation
made a substantialfinancialcontribution.
B. Specific Research Programs
The Foundation has at the present time three
programs of specific interest in the general area
of the Social Sciences: social security, international
relations, and public administration.
1. Social Security
Early in 1935 the trustees approved a new
program in social security. This program has
two main objectives:
a) research directed to the description and
measurement of cyclical and structural
change and to the analysis of the causes of
instability.
b) development of more adequate protection
against the main hazards that confront
the individual, such as sickness, accident,
old age dependency, and unemployment^
through improved provision for social insurance
and organized relief.
The program thus aims at prevention and protection,
The preventive aspect is to some extent
a continuation of the Foundation's earlier program
of economic planning and control. The protective
aspects of the problem have also received
intermittent but, in the aggregate, substantial
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